Alexandra Petri Rhetoric

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The president appeals primarily to pathos by listing ordinary people who fell victim to “deadly terrorist attacks.” He draws upon the audience’s feelings of anger and sorrow by including “moms and dads, friends and neighbors” among the murdered. President Bush details the efforts of different parts of the government to guarantee safety and stability. He guarantees his audience that everything possible is being done to find the terrorists who were responsible for the attacks. Also, the president shows pathos by saying this “Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened.”

Willa Cather has a great understanding of diction and thoroughly displays it in My Antonia. Anton Jelinek, a newly arrived immigrant from Bohemia, still calls Italians, “Eytalian … kawn-tree … we was showed in” (69) and mispronounces country and does not yet understand English grammar. He comments that, “I make my first communion very young,” (71). Jelinek’s informal dialogue fits his character because he is an immigrant and has just barely started to learn English. Therefore, his bad grammar, his accent, and mispronunciations make sense for who he is and where he came from, especially when taken into account where he is in his life. In contrast, Jim, who grew up in America and is native to the land, has a highly developed vocabulary and comments on how things are, “taciturn … [or] queer,” (72) and notes that Krajiek, “shrunk along behind them,” (75). He describes the, “bluish air, full of fine eddying snow, like long veils flying,” (76) and uses the words, “propitiatory intent” (77). Jim has a more formal language and is more educated that the immigrants of the towns. It is logical because it is written from the view of Jim as an adult looking back. As he looks back, he finds more complete words to describe situations that when he was actually in them. Jim’s vocabulary enlarged over time, so changes in how he describes his memories or reasonable.

I came from a high school where all my closest friends were athletic like me, were loud and vulgar like me, and extremely prideful like me. The athleticism inspired an extremely competitive bond between us. Our pride wouldn’t allow us to lose to each other in any event. Anything was a competition; racing down the street, a better grade on a test, how much food we ate during lunch are all examples. Needless to say, if any of my buddies and I shared the same class we would fight for the teachers and peers attention by attempting to be the funniest and most importantly, the loudest. Whenever the teacher would hold a class discussion I would always try to be the first one to shout out an answer, and sure enough a buddy of mine would routinely

The OP-ED piece written by Peggy Noonan on Nov. 19th, 2015 attacks the reader on several different fronts, but allows the same reader to empathize with individual aspects of the piece, or all of them. Feelings take center stage at first and Ms. Noonan challenges how the reader feels by deploying evidence; a synopsis of terror throughout the last two decades. Relentlessly she shows how just how permeable humanity is to intimidate by terror, along with the failures of President Barack Obama. Obama’s approach is belittled, even claiming the President is “barely relevant” and she does not consider his viewpoint. On a glance, she opens with a personal experience and then depicts several terrorist events, while tying them to the failures of Obama, and finishes with an example of greatness and questions who should steward this country going forward.

Joanna Bauer, she is the facilitator at the University of Phoenix. And she explained how to construct an academic paragraph. It is very interesting and will follow her guidance. Accordingly to her "Effective communication is the key to success in business." Also, it is crucial to take these consideration in an essay.

The rhetorical strategy Maria W. Stewart employs can be characterized as irony. Maria, an African American delivers a lecture in Boston in 1832 asserting that the "free people of color" living a supportable life have the same passion to be rich and independent but are confined to never rise above. Stewarts assertion the "free people of color" serves to accurately portray the rhetorical strategy of Irony. Stewart "[was] neither bought, nor sold, nor under the lash of the cruel driver."...

The authors do not present this piece in a normal article format. They use bullet point under different sub-titles to get their main points across. Even though they use this format, the hurt and shock of the writers still comes out. Although they try to stay positive about Trumps next four years, you can hear the emotion seeping out in the words they choose. One example of this is when they write, “Trump’s election was met with a mix of shock, uncertainty and some congratulations” (Rappeport). Although the co-authors try to stay positive they also write that, “Senate Democrats would be powerless to filibuster” (Rappeport). The pain of the authors expresses how a majority of people felt the next

Anna Quindlen gives a commencement speech at Mount Holyoke College. Her message was that people shouldn't strive to be “perfect” like everyone else, they should go down their own path and be themselves. Quindlen used many rhetorical modes and literary devices to communicate her message including the rhetorical triangle, tone, and some tropes and schemes.

Lastly, each article differs in the way they reveal their overall purpose. Cohen’s article, for example, puts his main focus towards defending the craft that he has dedicated his entire life to perfecting, along with manipulating his audience into believing a straw man that he set up in his article. The straw man, of course, was President Trump, and Cohen continuously used diatribe in order to lessen the president’s stature. After Cohen had lowered Trump’s credibility, Cohen used a questioning strategy to manipulate his audience even more into thinking that Trump is on the same path as Hitler was under his rule of Nazi Germany. In the end, Cohen’s purpose was directed at persuading his audience into believing that news outlets such as the

The article starts by trying to provoke fear at the reader. Using false numbers about how little our defense actually is and that keeping the homeland safe should be our main goal. It also mentions how scary the world is and how many enemies America has and how dangerous the middle east is. After all the propaganda the article moves to slam obama saying he has 487 billion dollars from the total spent on excessive weapons, training, and deployment into countries we never should have been in. The article finally ends on a lighter note sharing how America has had an effect throughout the world and without us countries would be left to suffer.

Emma Gonzales, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School read a very inspiring speech towards lawmakers and gun advocates. Emma wrote this speech and gave it at a rally to try and get to President Trump and tell everyone it's basically his fault and to make a stop to selling guns to mentally ill people and people that dont need them. Emma created this speech to persuade the audience at the rally of how a school shooter costed her school to lose 17 students and some of them were even teachers. Using the rhetorical appeals to show emotion and showing that these students experienced this tragic event, Emma even shaved her head to show she was grieving. She uses emotion and logic to show emotion and sadness towards the

June 11th, 2004, Margaret Thatcher, Great Britain’s former prime minister, gave a eulogy for Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had worked together often during his presidency from 1981-1989. In the respectful and reminiscent eulogy, Margaret Thatcher utilizes rhetorical appeals, anaphora, and counterpoints in order to honor Ronald Reagan as a great American leader.

EDITORIAL BOARD, which is a claim of fact article. This claim is shown in the first paragraph, first sentence, “First, reflect on the cruelty of President Trump’s decision on Friday to indefinitely suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily ban people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States” (The Editorial Board). This article is a claim of fact because it is something that did occur. As that being said, this statement is also an appeal of emotion as it is also stated that President Trump decision is pure cruelty. Also, by the title “Cowardly and Dangerous”, the author wanted the reader’s attention by appealing to the

Kairos is a significance part of rhetoric because; certain oral or written materials have appropriate times to be shared. When it comes to kairos there is a right time for everything, and unlike poetry, which is abstract form of art, it can be perceived in different ways. Poetry can be presented in different forms of writing, and is not confined compared to Kariros. Kariros of the written or spoken form takes advantage of a particular moment in time to grab an audience’s attention. Kariros must be presented at the right moment or it won’t be must as effected, it will miss the opportunity to capture the moment. According to the textbook “ Kairos, form this perspective, was the … deliberation and thus for examining issues of good and bad, right